Daily English

Expanding, practicing and testing your English speaking skills could not be easier! Daily English is an easy-to-use, interactive online learning service unique to Direct English. With this award-winning service you can read, see and hear genuine news stories of events and topics of the global world today. It’s a revolutionary way of learning that will build, grow and keep your English language skills current and contemporary. Via up-to-the-minute articles from a variety of international newspapers, including The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Washington Post and International Herald Tribune, as well as radio and TV programmes from the BBC.

Daily English expands your understanding of spoken and written English whilst keeping you abreast of current affairs. With exercises and notes on grammar and vocabulary too, it also tests your knowledge and provides that all-important additional practice in speaking the international language of business and communication. For the corporate executive, there are news articles and broadcasts on topics such as international travel, current affairs, finance and business from around the world. For the more general consumer, subjects such as the latest fashion trends, football and sport are covered, as well as reports on recent world events. What’s more, each article comes with vocabulary lists, activities and comprehension exercises - all written by a team of qualified teachers, editors and language experts.

With a new article every day covering a range of subjects from sports to current affairs, Daily English provides intermediate learners with the chance to learn and practise up-to-the-minute vocabulary and keep abreast of current affairs in English, all at the same time!


Listening skills are significantly improved by watching or listening to news broadcasts from award-winning news channels, BBC News 24 and BBC Radio's "From Your Own Correspondent"


Comprehension exercises and a grammar workshop allow you to test your understanding and practise what you have learned.


Written by a team of qualified teachers, editors and language experts, this section is devoted to a whole host of subjects to reinforce and refresh your knowledge and understanding of key points of grammar.


Explanations of any highlighted word are only the touch of a button away in our new 28,000 word dictionary from top UK reference publishers A&C Black.


Each article has a unique, independent learning objective, graded from intermediate to advance based on Council of Europe levels.

Online Modules

The Direct English's Online Modules are an invaluable resource to apply and build on what you have learned throughout your studies. They provide a mixture of over 60 fun and stimulating exercises and activities designed to practise and improve your understanding of English. Reinforcing the grammar, vocabulary and sentence structure you have learned to date across a full range of subject areas, our Online Modules are an easy-to-use, effective way to enhance your English language skills, at any time of the day or night!

Ideally suited to complement your studies at Levels 1, 2 and 3, our online learning modules provide a mixture of over 60 fun and stimulating exercises and activities designed to practise, test and enhance your understanding of English.


Using the internationally recognised Heriot Watt University assessment system, the online test at the end of each level is an ideal way to monitor the progress you have made throughout your studies.